Matt Damon criticizes Netflix’s hackneyed recipes for its productions and cancel culture

This freedom of speech indicates their importance in the world of entertainment. Even as their film, The Rip, is broadcast on Netflix, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck can afford to highlight the platform’s very formatted writing techniques. “Netflix is ​​like, ‘Can we have a big plot twist in the first five minutes?’ We want people to stay captivated. And it wouldn’t be so bad to repeat the plot three or four times in the dialogue, because people are on their phones watching.”testifies Matt Damon, in the very popular American podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, on which he was the guest with Ben Affleck. You don’t actually have to wait more than two minutes for The Rip, the story of a team of Miami cops on fire and blood, directed by Joe Carnahan and co-produced by the comedy duo, has its first action scene.

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Praise for the series Adolescence

“The classic Netflix way of making an action movie is usually to have three big scenes. One in the first act, one in the second, one in the third. The big scene with all the explosions, the one taking up most of the budget, is in the third act. It’s sort of the finale.”adds Matt Damon, who has formed a solid cinema duo with Ben Affleck since Will Hunting (1997). “This is really going to start to impinge on the way we tell stories. »

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Next to him, Ben Affleck nods. The series « Adolescence is great without doing any of this (…) It shows that it is not necessary to do all this bullshit for people to “ appreciate, believes the actor, citing a phenomenon miniseries released last year on Netflix. England has decided to show it in all colleges.

However, streaming would not represent a “existential threat”according to Ben Affleck who wants to believe that crowds will go to theaters this summer to see The Odyssey by Nolan, in which his friend Matt Damon plays. Who confided earlier about the cinematic experience: “We are surrounded by people we don’t know, (…) we live this experience together. I always say it’s a bit like going to church: you go at the scheduled time, the film doesn’t wait for you.”.

Controversy in 2021

During the interview led by Joe Rogan, a conservative podcaster who has distanced himself from Donald Trump, Matt Damon also spoke about cancel culture. He says to himself « certain » that actors targeted by a controversy “ would have preferred to go to prison for 18 months” rather than being in the sights of associations. “ The problem with being publicly lynched is that it never stops, he laments. And it will follow you to the grave. »

He himself had received a volley of green wood in 2021. Confession intended to support the evolution of mentalities, he said in an interview that he could have used a homophobic term in the past. During a joke. Confessed sin, half forgiven? Nay… Faced with the bronca aroused, the actor had to backpedal and swear to have never used it regularly.